Veterans SPORT Act

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 9478.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mrs. MILLER-MEEKS, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 170, No. 138, September 6, 2024, Page H5033):
  Article 1, Section 8 of the United States Constitution The single subject of this legislation is: This bill would amend Title 38 United States code to ensure that adaptive sports/recreation prosthetic limbs, including artificial hand ``terminal devices,'' for veterans with limb loss are recognized as clinically necessary. It would amend Section 1701 to include these adaptive prosthetics limbs and terminal devices.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record September 6, 2024 ↗

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  417 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 9478, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/9478

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  May 27, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  85a10f326a914e55e64e2dd927d3a5f06d1db4adfb1f64d2d68d80c576ecb582

  PORKER shows the statement exactly as printed, with the page markup removed. It is the sponsor’s claim; it is not a legal finding.

Congress.gov’s record for this bill does not list a CBO cost estimate or a committee report (as of May 27, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

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